Sentences with phrase «understand early church history»

Yes it became heresy after several centuries as I understand early church history.

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Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth - Century America by Elizabeth Clark University of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $ 69.95 If you wish... to understand German thought,» the German theologian August Tholuck wrote an American student in 1839, «I....

The medieval church had long forgotten the earlier understanding of the eucharistic prayer as the recital of the whole history of salvation; it preferred, instead, to focus on the words of institution.

In addition, we, more than the early church, regard the body as significant primarily as a «locus of sexuality,» whereas «for most of Western history the body was understood primarily as the locus of biological process.»

Do you not understand how the Bible is inescapably tied to and a product of the history and politics of the early Christian church?

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

It is to participate in the life of Israel and the early Church, in their hearing and interpretation of the Word spoken through all the sounds that assailed their ears, in their obedience and disobedience to the Will beyond all wills, in their mindfulness and understanding of the mighty acts of ultimate judgment and deliverance in all the arbitraments and liberations of history.